Barry Pain

Name: City Chronicles — VII. Soames v. Farshaw
Author: Barry Pain

City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

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“City Chronicles — VII. Soames v. Farshaw”, published in 1901, is a work by Barry Pain. It explores elements such as Farshaw, Croft and Soames.

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ It's simply a question of buying a narrow, triangular strip of road frontage to sell to the owner of a larger property behind it."
"Why can't the present owner of the larger property buy the strip for himself?"
"He can, but he won't. He doesn't care about making money. He's a scholar and a collector, and so on. He's also a recluse, and it wouldn't be far wrong to say that he's a little cracked, as well. But he's an old man and a bit of an invalid. He can't last long. And the next owner, whoever he may be, will want that long strip of road frontage. ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ As it was, I was on the verge of buying Croft's field and waiting for my profit; but—well, I've explained all that."
"Why doesn't Croft keep his land himself, and sell it to the next owner of Heriot's?"
"Because Croft, like a good many farmers nowadays, is in want of ready money. He has an idea that the land will be worth something one of these days, and thinks he is asking a pretty stiff price for it. But he has not quite realised that it puts from fifty to a hundred pounds an acre on to the value of the twelve acres behind it." ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ If I had given £750 for Croft's field, I should never have seen my money back again. I think you knew all that, and that you tried to put me in the cart, and I think I know why. And I don't think you were influenced by the commission that you were to make."
"That's all right," said Farshaw genially, and not in the least perturbed. "The game's up, and I may as well put my cards on the table. You knocked the syndicate of which I was a director for six thousand pounds. It is true that the loss fell on the syndicate, and not on me personally. ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ Farshaw, "after I'd left the Syndicate I had a few deals in house property. I made some successes, and I made some disappointments. There wasn't much in it, anyway. Then I went into the jungle—West Africans, you know. That's been much better, and we're not at the end of it yet. There are opportunities for a man with a little capital, if you like."
"Ah!" said Soames, "I don't know anything about mines and that sort of thing." ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ He remained to luncheon with the eccentric old recluse; by four o'clock in the afternoon, when he left, he had a very fair idea of the trap, and of how to put Mr. James Farshaw into it. Soames, as he travelled back to town, looked the very picture of a man who was at peace with the world.
For a man who tired easily Soames got a good deal done in the course of the next day. He called on Croft's agents in London and arranged to purchase Croft's field for considerably less than the sum that had originally been asked. ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ It's simply a good and certain profit for a man who can afford to put a little capital by for a few years. It's on a very small scale, but, so far as it goes, it's very particularly all right. I found it myself and fully intended to tackle it myself. ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ The new road will be a short cut, the other road makes a big loop just there; it will also be a better road, because the old one is flooded regularly whenever there is a heavy rain. Consequently, when Heriot's gets a frontage all along the south side, the frontage on the north, where Croft's field is, must necessarily be of comparatively no importance. ”

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Barry Pain, City Chronicles — VII. Soames v… (1901)

“ You are too late to do anything. Even if Gilfrew would see you, which I very much doubt, Heriot's is no longer at his disposal. I'm perfectly willing to tell you the whole story. It would interest me. But I shall expect you to be as candid with me as I am going to be with you."
"I was half afraid of this," said Farshaw. "Very well. Go on. Let's have it."
"When you gave me that opportunity to invest some money profitably in property here, you forgot one point. I refer to the new road to be made through Belman's land, skirting the south side of Heriot's."
"Croft never told you that. ”

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